Grandpa Takes a Walk
Martin Lewis, American, 1881 - 1962
1935
Drypoint and sand ground on wove paper
135, including 1 trial proof
Plate: 8 7/8 × 11 11/16 in. (22.5 × 29.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 × 16 7/16 in. (33 × 41.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Appleton 1792 Memorial Fund
PR.935.4
Printer
Charles S. White
Publisher
American College Society of Print Collectors, San Jose, California
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Martin Lewis; signed, in plate, lower right corner: MARTIN LEWIS watermark: HANDMADE .I WHATMA...[WHATMAN]
Exhibition History
Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930's and 1940's, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 3, 1994-March 5, 1995
Winter in Rural America, Prints from the 1930's and 1940's [American Works on Paper wall], Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 1-May 30, 2011.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930s and 1940s, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1994, listed no. 38.
Provenance
American College Society of Print Collectors; sold to present collection, 1935.
Catalogue Raisonne
McCarron (1995), no. 115; Kennedy-McCarron (1973), no. 114.
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